Explore a selection of works produced by the Great Lakes Research Center, a Michigan Technological University research institute.

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Works from 2018

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Are woodland caribou doomed by climate change?, Nancy Langston

Works from 2017

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Power and politics in research design and practice: Opening up space for social equity in interdisciplinary, multi-jurisdictional and community-based research, Valoree Gagnon, Hugh Gorman, and Emma Norman

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How the Rock Connects Us: A Geoheritage Guide to Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale, William I. Rose, Erika Vye, and Valerie Martin

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A particle-tracking technique for spatial and temporal interpolation of satellite images applied to Lake Superior chlorophyll measurements, Pengfei Xue, David J. Schwab, Reid W. Sawtell, Michael Sayers, Robert Shuchman, and Gary L. Fahnenstiel

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Water clarity of the Upper Great Lakes: Tracking changes between 1998–2012, Foad Yousef, Robert Shuchman, Michael Sayers, Gary L. Fahnenstiel, and Azad Henareh

Works from 2016

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Ojibwe Gichigami (“Ojibwa’s Great Sea”): an intersecting history of treaty rights, tribal fish harvesting, and toxic risk in Keweenaw Bay, United States, Valoree Gagnon

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A plague of waterfleas (Bythotrephes): impacts on microcrustacean community structure, seasonal biomass, and secondary production in a large inland-lake complex, W. Charles Kerfoot, Martin M. Hobmeier, Foad Yousef, Brenda Moraska Lafrancois, Ryan P. Maki, and Jodi K. Hirsch

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Legacy mercury releases during copper mining near Lake Superior, W. Charles Kerfoot, Noel Urban, Cory P. McDonald, Ronald Rossmann, and Huanxin Zhang

Works from 2015

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Prolonging Disaster (Un)recovery, Valoree Gagnon

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Onondaga to Ontario: Management of bioavailable phosphorus in municipal wastewaters for control of Cladophora, Renn S. Lambert, Martin Auer, Steven W. Effler, Mark R. Greene, Benjamin E. Downer, and Anika Kuczynski

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Spatial and temporal trends in zooplankton assemblages along a nearshore to offshore transect in southeastern Lake Michigan from 2007 to 2012, Steven A. Pothoven and Gary L. Fahnenstiel

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An investigation of the thermal response to meteorological forcing in a hydrodynamic model of Lake Superior, Pengfei Xue, David J. Schwab, and Song Hu

Works from 2014

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and multispectral scanner (MSS) studies examine coastal environments influenced by mining, Charlie Kerfoot, Martin M. Hobmeier, Foad Yousef, Sarah A. Green, Robert Regis, Colin Brooks, Robert Shuchman, Jamey Anderson, and Molly Reif

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Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and multispectral scanner (MSS) studies examine coastal environments influenced by mining, W. Charles Kerfoot, Martin M. Hobmeier, Foad Yousef, Sarah A. Green, Robert Regis, Colin N. Brooks, Robert Shuchman, Jamey Anderson, and Molly Reif

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Mechanism studies of seasonal variability of dissolved oxygen in Mass Bay: A multi-scale FVCOM/UG-RCA application, Pengfei Xue, Changsheng Chen, Jianhua Qi, Robert C. Beardsley, Rucheng Tian, Liuzhi Zhao, and Huichan Lin

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Local feedback mechanisms of the shallow water region around the Maritime Continent, Pengfei Xue, Elfatih A.B. Eltahir, Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli, and Jun Wei

Works from 2013

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Verification of Wave Measurement Systems, Mark E. Luther, Guy Meadows, Earle Buckley, Sherryl A. Gilbert, Heidi Purcell, and Mario N. Tamburri

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A review of low cost underwater acoustic remote sensing for large freshwater systems, Guy Meadows

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Coastal 'Big Data' and nature-inspired computation: Prediction potentials, uncertainties, and knowledge derivation of neural networks for an algal metric, David F. Millie, Gary R. Weckman, William A. Young, James E. Ivey, David P. Fries, Ehsan Ardjmand, and Gary L. Fahnenstiel

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The deceptively complicated "elevation ordinary high water mark" and the problem with using it on a Laurentian Great Lakes shore, Richard K. Norton, Guy Meadows, and Lorelle A. Meadows

Works from 2012

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Connecting Earth Systems: Developing Holistic Understanding Through the Earth-System-Science Model, Valoree Gagnon and Heather Bradway

Works from 2010

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Partitioning hydrologic contributions to an 'old-growth' riparian area in the Huron Mountains of Michigan, USA, Randall K. Kolka, Christian P. Giardina, Jason D. McClure, Alex Mayer, and Martin Jurgensen

Works from 1999

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The other re-engineering of engineering education, 1900-1965, Bruce E. Seely

Works from 1993

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Striving for Balance: A Hundred Years of the American Society for Engineering Education, Terry S. Reynolds and Bruce E. Seely